45 years later and The Oregon Trail is still going strong—as long as you’re not a farmer with dysentery.

Yesterday, Don Rawitsch—one of three co-inventors of the classic educational game—stopped by Reddit for a 2.5-hour AMA (Ask Me Anything). The game may’ve been released almost half a century ago, but redditors who grew up playing it as kids still had plenty of questions for its creator (pictured below with his denim-loving cohorts in 1995).